Kevin Leman Quotes

#1. Reality discipline steers a course between an authoritarian style and a permissive style, giving kids some choices but also holding them accountable.

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#2. If you give your people halfhearted leadership, you'll get a halfhearted following. But if you invest yourself in them, if you have a heart for them, your people will return your investment with a heartfelt following.

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#3. That's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.

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#4. Sex is all that it can and should be only when it is surrounded by and wrapped in love.

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#5. Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

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#6. Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

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#7. It wasn't what she put in her mouth that would defile her, but what proceeded from her mouth, be the words unkind, slanderous, gossipful, boastful or blasphemous.

Francine Rivers

#8. The older your teenagers are, the more they will have their own ideas and opinions. If you take them seriously, rather than assuming your ideas are always best and the only ones, you will begin to grow a relationship that will extend beyond the hormone-group years.

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#9. I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.

Keith Barry

#10. Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

Gene Perret

#11. Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.

J.M. Coetzee

#12. Good sex is an all-day affair. You can't treat your wife like a servant and expect her to be eager to sleep with you at night. Your wife's sexual responsiveness will be determined by how willingly you help out with the dishes, the kids' homework, or that leaky faucet that drips throughout the night.

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#13. The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

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#14. Your child needs not only your attention but also a relationship with you.

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#15. Think about and meditate on things you are thankful for. More importantly, think about people you are thankful for and why.

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#16. Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

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#17. Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.

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#18. A fulfilling sex life is one of the most powerful marital glues a couple can have.

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#19. My love life is nobody's business ... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

Julianna Margulies

#20. The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.

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#21. At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.

Joshua Greenberg

#22. Within the heart of every boy is an adventurer.

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#23. The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.

Kenneth C. Griffin

#24. How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents.

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#25. I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'

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#26. His eyes are so intense I want to look away ... or never look away, I can't decide.

Kasie West

#27. Everything is more effective when it's done in love rather than anger. Love really is a decision.

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#28. It's enough now of being unhealthy. I have a family, and I owe it to them to be as healthy as I can. A great sense of clarity comes when you have a child. It shows the important stuff to be important.

James Corden

#29. Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail - and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but don't try to undo their failures. It's not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.

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#30. Love is a cognitive, willful act. Feelings have very little to do with it, particularly around three o'clock in the morning when the baby needs changing or somebody has "lost it" before getting to the bathroom to throw up.

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#31. Big businesses are beginning to realize that the employee who puts his job before his home life is not as effective as the one who has a happy, fulfilling marriage.

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#32. A sexually fulfilled husband will do anything for you.

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#33. After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

Manju Warrier

#34. If you want to improve your sex life as a couple, you need to examine your relationship outside the bedroom. What are you doing that is keeping you from sexual intimacy?

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#35. I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

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#36. Cinderella's head rolled back against her will, and she lost track of the conversation as her stomach heaved. "I'm going to be sick," she said. Colonel Friedrich and his soldiers didn't react fast enough.

K.M. Shea

#37. Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.

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#38. How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

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#39. If every one is left to judge of his own religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is wrong; but if they are to judge of each other's religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is right; and therefore all the world is right, or all the world is wrong.

Thomas Paine

#40. I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.

Erno Rubik

#41. The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#42. I didn't have to be a slave to the worst tendencies of my personality.

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